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Crashing assignment

CRASHING ASSIGNMENT
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Table of Contents

Question 1..................................................................................................................................3

Question 2................................................................................................................................12

Reference List..........................................................................................................................13
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Question 1

Based on the given data, the activities that can be crashed are mentioned below table,

from the crash time and normal time maximum crash time is computed here. Thus, (Crash

time – normal time) is equal to the maximum crash time and the cost slope is calculated using

the following formula (Zandebasiri et al.2019):

Cost slope = (Normal Time - Crash Time) / (Crash time – normal time)

Using this formula, the below table has calculated the maximum crash time and cost

slope each activity.

Activity Normal Normal Crash Time Crash cost Cost slope Crash time

Time (days) cost ($) (days) ($) ($) Maximum

A 5 300 5 300 0 0

B 8 250 5 400 50 3

C 2 100 2 100 0 0

D 6 300 3 600 100 3

E 3 150 2 300 150 1

F 4 275 3 300 25 1

G 9 700 8 900 200 1

Table 1: Calculation of cost slope and maximum crash time

The critical path is also determined using the fastest route to the tasks available here.

The critical path determines what is the shortest way which can be used to complete the

project while maintaining the main activities, so the scope of the project stays intact even

after cutting different activities (Mahdiraji et al.2021).

Critical Path

8
E

3
C G
A

2 9
5

D 4

Figure 1: Critical path for this activity

There is total 4 critical path to complete the activity here.

The critical paths are mentioned below:

Critical path 1: A > B > E > G = 25 days

Critical path 2: A > C > E > G = 19 days

Critical path 2: A > C > F > G = 20 days

Critical path 2: A > D > F > G = 24 days

By following the critical paths only, 5 Run can be calculated for this activity. After

estimating the 5 runs, it can be determined that the crash timing can be achieved by 20 days

after complying new resources here. Also, the activities will have to be completed based on

the above mentioned four critical paths. In the below table, additional and cumulative cost is

calculated along with the project cost using the estimated critical path.
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All the Run calculation for activity

Particulars Critical Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5

Path

Project duration 25 24 23 22 21 20

critical path

ABEG

Additional cost - 50 75 150 300 250

($)

Cumulative Cost - 50 125 275 575 825

($)

Critical path ABEG ABEG ABEG ABEG ABEG ABEG

ADFG ADFG ADFG ADFG

Savings ($) - - - - - -

Project Cost ($) 2075 (2075 + 50) (2125 + 125) (2250 + 150) (2350 + (2650 + 250)

= 2125 = 2200 = 2350 300) = 2650 = 2900

Table 2: Calculation of Crashing activity, project cost and Run

Above table has shown all the necessary calculation to compute the project cost for

each run and the maximum number of crash time achieved by this project.

Run 1

In table 3, 1 day will be deducted from activity B and after the implementation of Run 1 the

total cost will be $2125 and total time for completion of the project is 24 days

Run 1

Taken crash Rest crash time

time
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1 2

Table 3: choosing crash time for Run 1

7
E

3
C G
A

2 9
5

D 4

Figure 2: New critical path based on Run 1

Run 2

In table 4, 1 day from activity B and 1 day from activity F will be deducted after the

implementation of Run 2 the total cost will be $2200 and total time for completion of the

project is 23 days.
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Run 2

Taken crash Rest crash time

time

1 1

1 0

Table 4: choosing crash time for Run 2

6
E

3
C G
A

2 9
5

D 3

Figure 3: New critical path based on Run 2

Run 3
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In table 5, 1 day from activity B and 1 day from activity D will be deducted after the

implementation of Run 3 the total cost will be $2350 and total time for completion of the

project is 22 days.

Run 3

Taken crash Rest crash time

time

1 0

1 2

Table 5: choosing crash time for Run 3

5
E

3
C G
A

2 9
5

D 3

5
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Figure 4: New critical path based on Run 3

Run 4

In table 6, 1 day from activity B and 1 day from activity G will be deducted after the

implementation of Run 4 the total cost will be $2650 and total time for completion of the

project is 21 days.

Run 4

Taken crash Rest crash time

time

1 1

1 0

Table 6: choosing crash time for Run 4

5
E

3
C G
A
Figure
2 8
5

D 3

Figure 5: New critical path based on Run 4

Run 5

In table 7, 1 day from activity D and 1 day from activity E will be deducted after the

implementation of Run 5 the total cost will be $2900 and total time for completion of the

project is 20 days.

Run 5

Taken crash Rest crash time

time

1 0

1 0
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Table 7: choosing crash time for Run 5

5
E

2
C G
A

2 8
5

D 3

Figure 6: New critical path based on Run 5

Therefore, the activities cannot be crashed anymore after 20 days of completion time

of this project. The total cost for completing this project by 20 days of time and following the

critical path of this project will be $2900.

Question 2

By given bonus per activity of $125, here the bonus for each activity may not be

needed since the activity changed in critical path will be used to spend. Crashed activities that

needs bonus are B > B, F > B, D > G, D > E, D. Thus, here bonus is added based on the

activities and the previous bonus activities as well. The total cost is calculated based on the

formula (Direct cost - Bonus).

Duration of Crashing Crash cost Direct cost Bonus Total cost ($) (Direct

the project activity ($) ($) ($) cost - Bonus)

(days)

25 - - 2075 - 2075

24 B 50 2125 125 2000

23 B, F 75 2200 250 1950

22 B, D 150 2350 375 1975

21 G, D 300 2650 500 2150

20 E, D 250 2900 625 2275

Table 8: Added bonus in each activity

Thus, the above table has indicated that total 20 days of time can be considered as the

highest crashed time achieved in this project and the required resource for 20 days

completion time will be $2275 if a bonus of $125 is given in each activity crashed here.
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Reference List

Mahdiraji, H. A., Sedigh, M., Hajiagha, S. H. R., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Jafari-Sadeghi, V., &

Dana, L. P. (2021). A novel time, cost, quality and risk tradeoff model with a

knowledge-based hesitant fuzzy information: An R&D project

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Zandebasiri, M., Vacik, H., Etongo, D., Dorfstetter, Y., Soosani, J., & Pourhashemi, M.

(2019). Application of time-cost trade-off model in forest management projects: The

case of Oak decline project. Journal of forest science, 65(12), 481-492. Retrieved on 23

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